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North Dakota
- Purpose:
To organize a state and community based partnership that would
adopt and advance a vision of 100%
Access and Zero Health Disparities
in the state of North Dakota.
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- Who
is involved:
- Community
Health Care Association (CHCA), North Dakota
- Family
Health Care Center (FHC), Fargo-Moorhead, North Dakota
- Homeless
Coalition, Bismarck, ND
- What
was done by Charles Wiltraut:
- Fargo-Moorhead:
The
Family HealthCare Center (a CHC) serves a community composed of
over 17 cultures of resettled refugees, in addition to the regular
population. Strategies needed to be developed to accommodate for
the phase out of a family practice residency program by UND. Community
discussions were
conducted in Fargo-Moorhead on May 11-12, 1999. A Briefing
Packet compiling secondary
data was produced for the community
site visit and a follow up report developed in June 1999. Strategic
planning with the FHC Executive Director and the North Dakota
staff of the Community Health Care Association was conducted in
December 1999 to facilitate next steps.
- Bismarck:
I
attended a community meeting on October 28, 2000 in Bismark to
assist CHCA in facilitating a group working on a HUD Continuum
of Care Plan, one component of which is striving toward a Health
Care for the Homeless project.
- Outcomes:
- The
community meetings secured public support for FHC.
- Fargo-Moorhead:
Follow
up meeting with the community to discuss future stategies for
FHC held in October 1999 during Community Health Center Week.
- Bismarck:
The
subcommittee working on health care for the homeless adopted 100%
and Zero Disparities as part of their goal on October 28,
1999. Objectives, strategies and time lines/next steps were set
at meeting through my facilitation.
- Contact
Information:
Sherlyn
Dahl
Executive Director
Family Healthcare Center
306 4th Street North
Fargo, ND 58102
Tel: 701-239-2283
Fax: 701-239-7134
Jenny
Witham
Associate Director of Primary Care
Community Health Care Association -- North Dakota
311 North Washington
P.O. Box 1734
Bismarck, ND 58501
Tel: 701-221-9824
Fax: 701-258-3161
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